ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jessica Reaves

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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3.5/4	Mad Hot Ballroom
3/4	Bear Cub
2.5/4	Dot the I
2/4	Short Cut To Nirvana
1.5/4	Ma Mere
1/4	Venom
0.5/4	Tamara
.5/4	Jackass: Number Two

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WORST REVIEWED
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.5/4	The Hottie & the Nottie
.5/4	Jackass: Number Two
0.5/4	Tamara
1/4	Broken
1/4	P2
1/4	Two Drifters
1/4	Dead Man's Shoes
1/4	Venom
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

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3/4	"Unlike so many of her peers who depend on music to do everything but deliver the dialogue, [director] Riedel isn't afraid of silence; early in the film there's a solid minute of noiselessness as the camera lovingly pans the town, establishing the story's" -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 15, 2008	How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summers (2008)	81%
2/4	"The problem isn't just that the material is cliched and vaguely offensive....It's more that the plot is incredibly predictable, the score is manipulative and the denouement completely unsatisfying." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 15, 2008	Before the Rains (2008)	39%
2/4	"On behalf of every woman who's ever turned down that second piece of cake or spent far too much on anti-aging creams, I want to say: Welcome, Darryl. I hope you'll invite other men on your overdue journey to Obvious Town." -- Chicago Tribune Posted May 8, 2008	America the Beautiful (2001)	n/a
3.5/4	"A chorus (average age 80) prepares for a springtime tour, putting their signature spin on classics--classics like The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go."" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2008	Young@Heart (2008)	87%
2.5/4	"Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic. Granted, a horror movie about vagina dentata was probably never destined to be tasteful, but Lichtenstein's comp" -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 27, 2008	Teeth (2008)	79%
2.5/4	"Peirce's obvious respect for the returned soldiers should prevent Stop-Loss from being dismissed as a Hollywood anti-war screed. It's more accurately described as an anti-war movie with a resolutely pro-troop message." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Mar 27, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
3/4	"*You can watch The Band's Visit* for its political idealism, or you can watch it for entertainment value alone. In either case, it doesn't disappoint.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Mar 6, 2008	The Band's Visit (2007)	98%
2.5/4	"Sticklers for historical accuracy are forewarned: This glossy production plays fast and loose with the facts, abbreviating, altering and excising entire character arcs and plot lines." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 28, 2008	The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)	41%
.5/4	"Heidi Ferrer's screenplay...succeeds at just one thing: trumpeting one of the most anti-feminist messages in recent film history." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Feb 7, 2008	The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)	5%
2/4	"The movie's total lack of focus and its unimpressive script should render it totally unwatchable. Weirdly, that doesn't quite happen." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jan 11, 2008	First Sunday (2008)	15%
2.5/4	"A sweet, familiar story, beautifully filmed and lovingly told." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 25, 2007	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)	73%
2.5/4	"But for all the movie�s good cheer, it�s never dull. What it lacks in edginess, it more than makes up for with stunning scenery, a breathless finale and an irresistibly hopeful message." -- Metromix.com Posted Dec 24, 2007	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)	73%
2/4	"Snippets of sharp, witty dialogue are lost in a sea of sappy clich�s and too-cute-for-words plot twists." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2007	P.S. I Love You (2007)	21%
3.5/4	"Assured and sharp, The Savages is only Jenkins' second feature-length film. You'd never know it." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 20, 2007	The Savages (2007)	90%
3/4	"While the film shares the novel's stealth appeal ... on the whole it's better: sharper, leaner and less sentimental." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 14, 2007	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
3/4	"It's a wickedly effective indictment of America's consumer compulsion, our mindless shopping and the multinational corporations controlling it all." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 29, 2007	What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)	65%
3/4	"This is a compelling, thought-provoking portrait of a quiet challenge rising within America's churches." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 29, 2007	For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)	93%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 26, 2007	Milarepa (2007)	36%
1/4	"[The] script is so uneven that the result is like watching four different, equally bad, movies." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 12, 2007	Broken (2007)	13%
1/4	"The same old grim game of cat and mouse. Sure, we hope the mouse gets away. But mostly we just want the whole thing to end." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 8, 2007	P2 (2007)	35%
2.5/4	"Wristcutters is quite a bit darker than most mainstream romantic comedies. As you might not expect, it's also quite a bit more inventive and far wittier than most mainstream romantic comedies." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 1, 2007	Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)	66%
2.5/4	"A well-intentioned biopic about disability crusader Richard Pimentel that starts strong but eventually collapses under its weighty sense of responsibility." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 25, 2007	Music Within (2007)	31%
2.5/4	"Despite [director] Fox's excruciating level of self-involvement, she manages, more than once, to lay bare critical questions that are at once familiar and compelling." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 13, 2007	Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)	74%
3/4	"If you can get past its relatively minor failings, it's hard not to be seduced by the big heart of this chaotic, colorful movie." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 13, 2007	Across the Universe (2007)	53%
2/4	"[A] marginally promising -- but ultimately unfunny -- comedy." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 13, 2007	Mr. Woodcock (2007)	13%
1.5/4	"Manufacturing Dissent comes across less as an expose of a polarizing public figure than as the realization of a personal and not especially interesting grudge against a once-admired colleague who has moved on to bigger things." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 30, 2007	Manufacturing Dissent (2007)	52%
3/4	"*Taut and remorseless, Them, which is allegedly based on actual events, is the perfect antidote to the stomach-churning gore served up by so many in the current crop of horror films." -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Aug 23, 2007	Them (2007)	63%
2/4	"Some hilarity does, in fact, ensue, but the laughs are interspersed with long stretches of dead air." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 2, 2007	Hot Rod (2007)	39%
3/4	"If you've not read Susan Minot's 1998 bestseller Evening, you will be happily oblivious to the movie's glaring departures and free to settle into this languid, gorgeously shot film, which bears only a passing resemblance to the novel." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 28, 2007	Evening (2007)	27%
3/4	"The usual pyrotechnics are intact, the corpses pile up and McClane even gets to spit out his signature battle cry." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2007	Live Free or Die Hard (2007)	80%
3/4	"'Restrained' and 'tasteful' are not words normally associated with McG, the director best known for countless music videos and the Charlie's Angels movie franchise. We Are Marshall could change that." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2006	We Are Marshall (2006)	48%
2.5/4	"What makes this movie worth seeing, is, ironically, exactly what may deter potential audiences: It's a rigorous, almost academic examination of a venomous hatred rooted in the past, primed to poison the future." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Dec 7, 2006	Ever Again (2005)	50%
3/4	"Silberling demonstrates an unerring ear for the natural, often discomfiting rhythm of two strangers tentatively forging a connection." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 30, 2006	10 Items or Less (2006)	62%
2.5/4	"A daring, messy and strangely rewarding patchwork that's straining at the seams." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 22, 2006	Bobby (2006)	45%
1.5/4	"*... Deck the Halls* has little to recommend it.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Nov 21, 2006	Deck the Halls (2006)	6%
3/4	"A revelatory, challenging and deeply affecting portrait, anchored by what may be Kidman's most profoundly moving performance to date." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 16, 2006	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	30%
2/4	"*It's no surprise that you can see A Good Year's* plot twists and clunker of an ending from a mile away.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Nov 9, 2006	A Good Year (2006)	26%
2.5/4	"It's a solid, if flawed, effort by Adams." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 9, 2006	Come Early Morning (2006)	84%
2/4	"After beginning at a healthy clip, the film becomes mired in endless remembrances of debaucheries past and Miami's descent into lawlessness." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Nov 9, 2006	Cocaine Cowboys (2006)	70%
2/4	"The action, political intrigue and marital tensions (which prove critical as the story unfolds) never quite coalesce into a compelling whole." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 26, 2006	Catch a Fire (2006)	76%
3.5/4	"The memoirist turned screenwriter turned director has hit it out of the park with his first feature, crafting an unflinching, often brutal retrospective of his formative years in Astoria, Queens." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 19, 2006	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)	75%
3/4	"Insouciant but never cavalier, Coppola's latest effort should prove definitively she's a talent in her own right." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 19, 2006	Marie Antoinette (2006)	54%
3/4	"What Ewing and Grady have accomplished here is remarkable -- capturing the visceral humanity, desire and unflagging political will of a religious movement." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 28, 2006	Jesus Camp (2006)	87%
2.5/4	"In between the maudlin moments, [director] Davis et al. deliver a sturdy popcorn movie and a few genuine thrills. Not bad for a day on the high seas." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 28, 2006	The Guardian (2006)	37%
1.5/4	"This ultimately disappointing comedy starts reasonably strong, delivers a few good laughs, then rolls over and plays dead." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 28, 2006	School for Scoundrels (2006)	25%
.5/4	"I don't know what to say about Jackass: Number Two. What is there to say, after all, about a 95-minute foray into feces, intestinal gas, horse semen and a beer funnel inserted into a body cavity that's quite obviously not someone's mouth?" -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 21, 2006	Jackass: Number Two (2006)	61%
2.5/4	"An enjoyable road movie that feels both comfortable and completely fresh." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 21, 2006	The Puffy Chair (2006)	76%
3/4	"... a smart, witty, sexy take on the perils of becoming an adult." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 15, 2006	The Last Kiss (2006)	46%
3/4	"*Thanks largely to the brutal honesty of its subjects, The Ground Truth* transcends the protest genre and delivers a much broader cautionary tale.*" -- Chicago Tribune* Posted Sep 14, 2006	The Ground Truth (2006)	87%
2/4	"Unfortunately for director and co-writer Manuel Gomez Pereira, all the energy in the world isn't enough to compensate for the superfluous plot lines and outrageous overacting that weigh down this bit of warm-hearted Spanish fluff." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 7, 2006	Queens (aka Reinas) (2006)	43%

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